Today in history brought to you by HistoryOrb gc 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth). 303 - Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. 852 - Croatian Duke Trpimir I issued a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources. 932 - Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs. 1152 - Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king 1215 - King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III. 1238 - The Battle of the Sit River was fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia. 1351 - Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam. 1386 - Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) was crowned King of Poland. 1461 - Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha Edward IV recognized as king of England 1461 - Henry VI deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses 1492 - King James IV of Scotland concludes an alliance with France against England. 1570 - King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students 1590 - Mauritius of Nassaus ship reaches Breda 1611 - George Abbot appointed archbishop of Canterbury 1621 - Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia 1665 - English king Charles II declares war on Netherlands 1675 - John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England 1681 - King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn King Charles II 1699 - Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany 1741 - English fleet under admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena 1774 - 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel) 1776 - The American War of Independence: The Americans capture Dorchester Heights dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts. 1789 - 1st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps) 1790 - France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land. 1791 - 1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office 1791 - Pres Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session 1791 - Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies) 1792 - Oranges introduced to Hawaii 1793 - French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Neth 1793 - Washingtons 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words) 1797 - John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of US 1798 - Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews 1801 - 1st president inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson) US President Thomas Jefferson 1804 - The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Irelands Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colonys only significant convict uprising. 1809 - Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes 1824 - The National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck was founded in the United Kingdom, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858. 1825 - John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president 1826 - 1st US RR chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass 1829 - Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th US President 1829 - Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball 1830 - V Bellinis opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi, premieres in Venice 1835 - HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion 1837 - Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president 1837 - Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American 1837 - Chicago becomes incorporated as a city. 1841 - Dion Boucicaults London Assurance, premieres in London 1841 - Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison 1845 - James K Polk inaugrated at 11th president US President & General Andrew Jackson 1848 - Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution 1848 - Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno dItalia 1849 - US had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldnt be sworn-in, Sen David Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended Mar 3rd 1853 - Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands 1853 - William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US VP 1861 - Confederate States adopt Stars & Bars flag 1861 - Lincolns inaugurated as 16th pres; 1st time US has 5 former pres 1861 - Pres Lincoln opens government Printing Office 1863 - Battle of Thompsons Station, TN 1863 - Territory of Idaho established 1865 - Confederate congress approves final design of official flag 1865 - President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as president 1869 - Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th US President 1876 - US Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap 1877 - Tsjaikovskis incomplete ballet Zwanenmeer, premieres in Moscow US President Ulysses S. Grant 1880 - NY Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S H Horgan 1881 - California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation 1881 - Holmes & Watson begin A Study in Scarlet, 1st case together 1881 - James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th president 1881 - South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire 1882 - Britains first electric trams run in East London. 1883 - John Gordon Cashmans begins Vicksburg Evening Post in Mississippi 1885 - Gilbert & Sullivans opera Mikado, premieres in London 1885 - Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic pres since Civil War 1889 - Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president 1890 - The longest bridge in the Great Britain, the Forth Bridge (railway) (1,710 ft) in Scotland is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII. 1893 - Francis Dhanis army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe 1893 - Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th US president (2nd term) 1894 - Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed 1895 - Gustav Mahlers 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin 25th US President William McKinley 1897 - William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US 1899 - Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead. 1901 - 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-Natl Intelligencer) 1901 - President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president 1901 - Term of George H White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends 1902 - American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago 1905 - Gerhart Hauptmanns Elga, premieres in Berlin 1908 - Collingwood Ohio, US primary school catches fire (180 killed) 1909 - President Taft inaugrated at 27th president during 10 snowstorm 1909 - US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds 1911 - Victor Berger (Wisc) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US 1913 - 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed 1913 - Dept of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments 1913 - Gabriel Faures opera Penelope, premieres in Monte Carlo 1913 - NY Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda) US President Woodrow Wilson 1913 - Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president 1918 - Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921) 1920 - Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece 1921 - Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas 1923 - Lenins last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy) 1924 - Happy Birthday To You published by Claydon Sunny 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 372 1188 - Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII of France (d. 1252) 1394 - Henry the Navigator, Prince/sponsors Portuguese voyages of discovery 1492 - Francesco de Layolle, composer 1610 - William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646) 1651 - John Baron Somers, (Whig), William IIIs chief minister (1696-1700) 1665 - Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier (d. 1694) 1678 - Antonio Vivaldi, Venice, Baroque violin virtuoso/composer (4 Seasons) 1702 - Jack Sheppard, English burglar and escapee (d. 1724) 1706 - Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect and architectural writer (d. 1759) 1715 - James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, British statesman (d. 1763) 1719 - Aert Schouman, Dutch bird/portrait painter 1719 - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d. 1777) 1742 - Johann Heinrich Egli, composer 1745 - Charles Dibdin, English composer (d.1814) 1747 - Casimir Pulaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general 1754 - Benjamin Waterhouse, physician (smallpox vaccine pioneer) 1754 - Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer 1756 - Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823) 1757 - Ignaz Malzat, composer Violin Virtuoso & Composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678) 1765 - Charles Dibdin, England, composer/author (Sea Songs)/actor (baptized) 1766 - Emanuel ADMJ, French historian (Napoleon) 1773 - Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer 1781 - Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869) 1782 - Johann Wyss, Swiss folklorist/writer (Swiss Family Robinson) 1789 - Pavel P Gagarin, Russ monarch 1793 - Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851) 1798 - John Joseph Abercrombie, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1877 1813 - Wijnand J J Nuijen, romantic/water colors painter (Wrecked) 1817 - Edwards Pierrepont, American statesman, jurist and lawyer; 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892) 1819 - Charles Oberthur, composer 1820 - Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (d. 1856) 1822 - Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880) 1826 - John Buford, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 1826 - Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863) 1828 - Elisha Franklin Bull Paxton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) 1834 - Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer 1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italy, astronomer (discovered canals of Mars) 1835 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911) 1838 - Paul Lacome, composer 1841 - Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (And fremmed Fugl) 1844 - Josip Jurcic, Slovenian writer (10th Brother) 1847 - Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904) 1854 - Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945) 1856 - Toru Dutt, English and French poet and author (d. 1877) 1856 - Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921) 1862 - Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Emden-polytroop) 1863 - Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist (d. 1947) 1863 - John Henry Wigmore, American jurist and expert in the law of evidence (d. 1943) 1864 - David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (d. 1940) 1870 - Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (d. 1944) 1871 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945) 1873 - Guy Wetmore Carryl, American humorist and poet (d. 1904) 1873 - John H. Trumbull, 54th Governor of the U.S. state of Connecticut (d. 1961) 1875 - Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit/old testament scholar/interpreter 1875 - Enrique Larreta, [E R Maza], Argentine diplomat (Gloria de Don Ramiro) 1875 - Suze Groeneweg, 1st Dutch female parliament member (SDAP, 1918-37) 1876 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947) 1876 - Theodore Hardeen, Magician and stunt performer, founder of the Magicians Guild (d. 1945) 1877 - Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer 1877 - Daniel G van Beuningen, Dutch art collector 1877 - Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934) 1878 - Egbert Van Alstyne, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1951) 1878 - Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (d. 1947) 1879 - Bernhard Kellermann, writer 1880 - Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (d. 1946) 1881 - Todor Aleksandrov, 19th century Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1924) 1881 - Maude Fealy, American actor (d. 1971) 1881 - Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer (d. 1965) 1881 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (d. 1948) 1882 - Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat, government minister, and former President of the League of Nations (d. 1941) 1883 - Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (d. 1956) 1884 - Red Murray, American professional baseball player (d. 1958) 1885 - Willem H Winkel, Dutch physician/founder (Red Cross of Curacao) 1886 - Paul Bazelaire, French cellist (d. 1958) 1887 - Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress (d. 1953) 1888 - Knute Rockne, Norwegian/US football player/coach (Notre Dame) 1888 - Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (d. 1942 1888 - Jeff Pfeffer, American professional baseball pitcher (d. 1972) 1889 - Pearl White, [Victoria], US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline) 1889 - Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1967) 1889 - Oren E. Long, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawaii (d. 1965) 1891 - Dazzy Vance, hall of fame pitcher (led NL in strike-outs 7-yrs) 1891 - Lois Wilson, founder of Al-Anon (d. 1988) 1895 - Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (d. 1953) 1897 - Francis Lefty ODoul, baseball player/organized Japanese baseball 1898 - Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1940) 1899 - Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and editor (d. 1962) 1900 - Roberto Soundy, El Salvador, trap shooter (Olympic-1968) 1900 - Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971) 1901 - Charles H Goren, bridge master (26 US Titles) 1901 - Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy/French poet (d. 1937) 1903 - Harold Berens, comedian 1903 - William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983) 1903 - John Scarne, American magician (d. 1985) 1904 - George Gamow, nuclear physicist/cosmologist/writer (1, 2, 3... 1904 - Joseph Schmidt Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942) 1904 - Chief Tahachee, American-born Old Settler Cherokee Indian stage and film actor (d. 1978) 1906 - Meindert DeJong American author (d. 1991) 1906 - Georges Ronsse, Belgian national cyclo-cross and world champion road bicycle racer (d. 1969) 1906 - Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., American businessman (d. 2007) 1 2 3 4 ▶ Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 3 of 3 1540 - Protestant Count Philip of Hessen marries 2nd wife 1989 - Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline 2000 - American Beauty actress Mena Suvari (21) weds cinematographer Robert Brinkmann (38) Famous Divorces Divorces 1 - 1 of 1 1960 - Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz Famous Deaths Deaths 1 - 100 of 194 251 - Pope Lucius I 480 - Saint Landry, bishop of Sées 1172 - Stephan III, King of Hungary (1162-72), dies; (b. 1147) 1193 - Saladin, Kurdish sultan (b. 1137) 1238 - Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II (b. 1210) 1238 - Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1189) 1303 - Daniel of Moscow, Russian Saint, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1261) 1484 - Saint Casimir, Crown Prince of Poland dies at 25 1496 - Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427) 1583 - Bernard Gilpin, English clergyman, Apostle of the North (b. 1517) 1595 - Robert Southwell, English poet, hanged for becoming a Catholic priest 1604 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b. 1539) 1615 - Hans von Aachen, German painter, dies 1617 - Arcangelo Crivelli, composer, dies at 70 1710 - Louis III, Prince of Condé (b. 1668) 1733 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656) 1744 - John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (b. 1669) 1762 - Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702) 1793 - Isaac Ouwater, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 44 1794 - Henri D count de Larochejacquelin, Fr Royalist Army leader, dies at 21 1795 - John Collins, American politician (b. 1717) 1804 - Karl Leopold Rollig, composer, dies 1805 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter, dies at 79 1807 - Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754) 1831 - Georg Michael Telemann, composer, dies at 82 1832 - Jean-François Champollion, French scholar (b. 1790) 1839 - Ignace Antoine Ladurner, pianist/composer, dies at 72 1851 - Michael Henkel, composer, dies at 70 1851 - James Richardson, British explorer (b. 1809) 1852 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer and playwright, dies at 43 1853 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (b. 1774) 1858 - Matthew Perry, U.S. naval officer (b. 1794) 1864 - Thomas Starr King, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity), dies 1866 - Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder Disciples of Christ, dies at 77 1868 - Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805) 1872 - Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790) 1876 - Alfred Holmes, composer, dies at 38 1877 - Hendrik E van Rijgersma, Dutch governor (St Maarten), dies at 42 Confederate States VP Alexander H. Stephens (1883) 1883 - Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President US Confederate States, dies at 71 1888 - Amos Bronson Alcott, US theory/poet (Table Talk), dies at 88 1903 - Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant), dies at 68 1906 - John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. 1831) 1910 - Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857) 1915 - William Willett, inventor of Daylight Saving Time (b. 1856) 1916 - Franz Marc, German painter/co-founder (Blaue Reiter), killed at 36 1918 - Eugene DHarcourt, composer, dies at 58 1922 - Bert Williams, famous black, dies at 46, in NYC 1925 - Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer, dies at 70 1925 - James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843) 1925 - John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (b. 1860) 1927 - Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846) 1933 - Willie Walker, US jazz singer/guitarist (Dupree Blues), dies at 36 1936 - Ruben Mattias Liljefors, composer, dies at 64 1938 - George Foster Peabody, American politician (b. 1852) 1938 - Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874) 1940 - Hamlin Garland, American novelist (b. 1860) 1941 - Edoardo Mascheroni, composer, dies at 81 1942 - Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, composer, dies at 62 1943 - Nikolaos Sokrates Politis, Greek foreign minister, dies at 71 1943 - Pieter C Boutens, Dutch poet (Beatrijs), dies at 73 1944 - Louis Capone, New York organized crime figure (b. 1896) (executed) 1944 - Emanuel Weiss, American hitman (b. 1906) (executed) 1944 - Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and political activist (b. 1855) 1945 - Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872) 1945 - Mark Sandrich, American film director, writer and producer (b. 1900) 1946 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886) 1948 - Antonin Artaud, French poet/actor (Napoleon), dies at 51 1950 - Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant (b. 1899) 1952 - Charles Scott Sherrington, English scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857) 1953 - Sergei S Prokoviev, Russian composer (Peter & the wolf), dies at 61 1954 - Georg Gohler, composer, dies at 79 1954 - Noel Gay, [Richard Moxon Armitage], composer, dies at 55 1958 - Albert Kuyle, [Lou Kuitenbrouwer], writer (Jesus Carpet), dies at 54 1959 - Maxey Long, American athlete (b. 1878) 1960 - Leonard Warren, US baritone, dies on stage at 48 1960 - Herbert OConor, 51st Governor of the US State of Maryland (b. 1896) 1962 - Cairine R Wilson, 1st Canadian female senator (appointed), dies at 77 1962 - George Mogridge, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1889) 1963 - William Carlos Williams, US physician/poet, dies at 79 1966 - Janis Medins, composer, dies at 75 1967 - Vladan Desnica, Croatian and Serbian writer (b. 1905) 1967 - Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1885) 1968 - Alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84 1969 - Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881) 1973 - Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy (b. 1907) 1974 - Adolph Gottlieb, US painter, dies at 71 1976 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886) 1977 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951) 1977 - Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor (b. 1925) 1977 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany (b. 1887) 1978 - Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona (b. 1909) 1979 - Willi Unsoeld, American mountain climber (b. 1926) 1981 - Torin Thatcher, actor (Houdini, Isranbul, Lady Godiva), dies 1981 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896) 1984 - Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze, composer, dies at 79 1984 - Ernest Buckler, Canadian novelist (b. 1908) 1984 - Jewel Carmen, American actress (b. 1897) 1984 - Geoffrey Lumsden, British actor (b. 1914) 1986 - Henri Knap, Dutch journalist/writer, dies at 75 1986 - Richard Manuel, rock vocalist/pianist (Band), commits suicide at 42
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